Monday, September 12, 2011

Monday Morsel: Tamara Ecclestone

It was only a couple months ago that 22-year old British heiress and fashion designer Petra Ecclestone set the southern California real estate world on fire when she paid a titanically tumescent $85,000,0000 for Candy Spelling's 55,000 square foot mega-mansion in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles, CA.

Today word comes slip-sliding down the international celebrity real estate gossip grapevine that Petra's 27-year old sister Tamara will not to be out done by her little sister. Apparently Tamara–set to star in her own reality show calledBillion Dollar Girl–and her man-pal Omar Khyami were in Tinseltown last week shopping for a gigantic house of their own that Mister Khyami said will make Petra's new digs "look like the guest house."

Snap!Anyhoo,, according to gossip juggernaut TMZ the very young big spenders had a look see at a number of exuberantly priced properties in the Platinum Triangle including Guess clothing co-founder Armand Marciano's 20-acre estate perched above Benedict Canyon in Beverly Hills (listed at $63,000,0000) and sub-prime mortgage short Jeff Greene's 25-plus acre spread with its resort hotel-sized pile (listed for lease at $195,000 per month and available for purchase for an undisclosed amount of money).The Formula One heiress–who owns a swank house in London's über-posh Kensington area that's under renovation and said to be designed to include a bowling alley, dog spa and a million dollar crystal bath tub from the Amazon–was also reported to have poked around Le Belvedere, the impossibly lavish Bel Air mansion that property developer Mohamed Hadid sold in June 2010 for $50,000,000 to a mysterious buyer with overseas connections. TMZ also indicated that Miss Ecclestone also peeped at Lauren and Richard King's recently re-built and decidedly dignified Georgian pile in the Holmby Hills area listed for $65,000,000. However, Your Mama hears through the Platinum Triangle real estate gossip grapevine that although she showed up with an extensive entourage the expensively clad crew didn't actually get past the front door. It's just rumor and gossip, kids, rumor and gossip.

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Assuming the first set of pictures relate to the Marciano house, I'd say at first glance I prefer it to Candy's pile. Candy's manse always looked to me like a corpse scrunched up to fit in somebody trunk, there not being enough grounds to let it stretch out naturally.

They've generally remained under the radar compared to many of their London peers with similar wealth then all of a sudden they're buying $100M homes in Chelsea & then $100M homes in LA. It just seems like there's something more too it ... why now? Why not 5 years ago? It's not like Bernie just made his billions, they've been superrich their entire lives.

I don't see any mention of Tamara perusing Ms. Saperstein's Fleur de Lys pile. I wonder if Suzanne is still holding out for the buyer to pay her moving expenses, lol. (She'll never admit it, but I bet she's kicking herself).

@11:03, 5 years ago Petra was still in high school and Tamara was younger than Petra is now. That probably has something to do with it.

The Ecclestone girls seem poised to take LA by storm. I think we'll soon be needing lots of popcorn.

I love it, 9:44. "Candy's manse always looked to me like a corpse scrunched up to fit in somebody trunk, there not being enough grounds to let it stretch out naturally." Except you've described Candy herself rather than the house. And 11:03, IMHO the why factor is owed to their "reality" show. I hate to say it but... I welcome the Ecclestone b-otches to TV land. If only because of their potential to knock the K-Mart clan of CalabASSas off the map.

what the fuck is going on with these 2 ??? something doesn't add up. why all of a sudden are these super duper rich folks buying mega estates in the us? more and more foreigners with boatloads of dough- half the dubai and sheik's families have monster homes in la- are buying their way into this country. don't want to be an alarmist but.. illuminati and bilderberg group come to mind. hostile takeover of our country next????